‘Island 359’ Virtual Self Update Lets Spectators Watch You Stomp On Dinos

[kcarbotte]

Cloudgate Studios today rolled the Virtual Self update for "Island 359," which brings full-body avatars to the hit VR dinosaur hunting game. Now, spectators can watch you stomp on critters in virtual reality.

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[cryoburner]

This is the kind of thing that more VR games should be adding. Like this game shows, even without additional trackers, it should be possible to roughly estimate the position of a player's body, arms, and even legs based on the location of the headset and controllers. This would be especially good for more social games, like Sportsbar VR, which was posted about here earlier today. A VR experience like that could be more immersive if players actually had human avatars, instead of being just floating VR headsets with hats.